By Q Radio News
1,500 redundancies have been proposed In Northern Ireland since the start of August, according to the latest Quarterly Employment Survey showing the impact of COVID-19 on jobs here.
In the last 12 months, 9,160 redundancies were proposed, more than double the number recorded in the previous 12 months.
In particular since the start of March at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, 6,800 proposed redundancies were confirmed - a figure higher than the number of proposed redundancies made in calendar year since 2001.
The NISRA statistics also show these figures have now translated into confirmed redundancies with 3,880 now made in the last 12 months, with that figure, once again, being double that of the previous 12 months.
With these high redundancy figures, the number of people claiming for unemployment related benefits also remained high, at above 60,000 for the fourth month in a row.
The figures today show almost 62,700 people or 7% of the Northern Irish workforce are now claiming for these benefits. This number has increased by 800 between July 2020 and August 2020.
The number of jobs in Northern Ireland also decreased in June 2020 for the first time since December 2015.
Cuts have in particular come in manufacturing, hospitality and for admin and support services.
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